Should 21st century citizens of the world’s largest democracy live in fear of committing the medieval crime of blasphemy? This is the question raised by the violent rampage earlier this month in West ...

When Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (United)—a party that claims secular credentials but has morphed into an ...

The far-right group known as the R.S.S., whose members include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spent a century trying to ...

The recent elections in four states and one federally ruled territory in India threw up results that sent shock waves to the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that runs the federal government in ...

Should future historians debate precisely when the project of Nehruvian secularism breathed its last, their shortlist will surely include this date: May 23, 2019. Until election results poured in that ...

As Bangladesh debates large-scale constitutional reform, one issue in particular is beginning to echo a parallel debate taking place across the border in India. Two words are at the centre of this ...

From childhood memory to state policy, December 25 now reflects the uneasy collision between lived pluralism and an aggressive attempt to marginalise Christianity under the language of governance.

Nitin Gadkari said the meaning of the English word 'secular' is 'sarva dharma bhav' in Hindi or 'justice to all and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper purports to examine and analyze the concept of Secularism in the context of world in general and India in particular. India ...

The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 78, No. 3 (July-September, 2017), pp. 335-342 (8 pages) The word 'Secularism' is derived from Latin word 'Saeculum' which means 'of this age ' 'related to ...

On the eve of India’s independence, the man who would soon become the country’s first Prime Minister outlined an aspirational vision. India would be a nation where people of all religions had equal ...